changing cell background on mouseover

I know that you can change the cell background color on mouseover, but is
there a way with stylesheets that a background image can be swapped?

Thanks in advance for any advice!
Marita

Marita wrote:

I know that you can change the cell background color on mouseover, but is
there a way with stylesheets that a background image can be swapped?
In theory you can use :hover pseudo classes on all elements, e.g.

td:hover { background-image: url(/alternate_image.jpeg); }
Unfortunately a certain popular browser supports :hover only on <a> tags...
As far as I know, there is now way around using JS to get it to work in IE.

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Marita wrote:

I know that you can change the cell background color on mouseover,
but is there a way with stylesheets that a background image can be
swapped?
In theory you can use :hover pseudo classes on all elements, e.g.
td:hover { background-image: url(/alternate_image.jpeg); }
Unfortunately a certain popular browser supports :hover only on <a
tags... As far as I know, there is now way around using JS to get it
to work in IE.

The only other option other than using JS (I recommend csshover.htc for
those who go that route) that I have found to work is to use a block
displayed anchor tag. :-/ It's pretty unclean, but I've used it
occassionally for menu's and such to eliminate that extra piece.

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